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mobeau69

(11,141 posts) Fri Jun 24, 2022, 11:10 PM Jun 2022

OK, time for me to re-read MLK's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail".

I keep thinking of his words in that letter that “An unjust law is no law at all.”

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OK, time for me to re-read MLK's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail". (Original Post) mobeau69 Jun 2022 OP

That letter helped to shape my views a long time ago. Solly Mack Jun 2022 #1

I think I threw that book out! It was a reader my English prof used. mobeau69 Jun 2022 #2

It's a powerful letter. Solly Mack Jun 2022 #3

Powerful! mobeau69 Jun 2022 #4

Solly Mack

(90,762 posts)

1. That letter helped to shape my views a long time ago.

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Fri Jun 24, 2022, 11:19 PM

Jun 2022

mobeau69

(11,141 posts)

2. I think I threw that book out! It was a reader my English prof used.

Reply to Solly Mack (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 24, 2022, 11:30 PM

Jun 2022

I read about a dozen great required readings out of it but that letter is the only one that stuck with me through the decades.

Solly Mack

(90,762 posts)

3. It's a powerful letter.

Reply to mobeau69 (Reply #2)

Fri Jun 24, 2022, 11:36 PM

Jun 2022

mobeau69

(11,141 posts)

4. Powerful!

Reply to Solly Mack (Reply #3)

Fri Jun 24, 2022, 11:51 PM

Jun 2022

I’ve lived a long time and I’ve witnessed some great advocates for justice like LBJ, JFK, RFK and Obama but I know I’ll never see the likes of MLK in my lifetime again.

It’s sort of a sad thing and a happy thing at the same time.

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